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No Chamber at Noon – Business After Hours Instead The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will not be holding a noon meeting April 24 due to its Business After Hours that evening. It will be held at Funzee’s on the Midway, Grand Coulee...

January New mayor takes over Chris Christopherson became the mayor of Grand Coulee Jan. 3. after winning the popular vote in November. He and former mayor Tammara Byers traded seats, as she took his old spot on the city council. Sewage plans...

Lighter moments in government Ken Dexter, Electric City’s public works director, lightened things up a bit at the city council meeting last Tuesday night as he ran through a long string of needs for his department for next year. He had been asked...

A wildfire that started last Tuesday north of an around Omak Lake is now 60 percent contained after burning two homes, more than 16,000 acres of grass and timber and eight structures, and evacuating...

From 150 to 200 firefighters continue to battle a wildfire around Omak Lake that has closed a school and evacuated homes. Two homes and eight other structures have been lost in the St. Mary’s Mission Road Fire that started Tuesday night east of...

A wildfire has forced evacuation of Paschal Sherman Indian School and nearby homes and had burned approximately 1,000 acres of grass and trees and several structures, as of late Tuesday night. A press release issued from Mt. Tolman Fire Center at...

We would like to thank the wonderful firemen, neighbors with shovels, the helicopter pilot and driver of the DNR tractor that joined forces to save our farm home from the wildfire on Sunday, the 9th. Without your help we would have surely lost some...

Back in the early 1990s, I was sent to the Chelan area for a large fire that was burning. Deano McPherson, Flint Bjorson and I took a structure truck over there as part of a “structure protection...

A wildfire broke out in Seaton’s Grove right below the rock cut on SR 155 just north of Elmer City just before 7 p.m. Sunday. Several units of firefighters responded from Okanogan County Fire...

A wildfire broke out in Seaton’s Grove right below the rock cut on SR 155 just north of Elmer City just before 7 p.m. Sunday night. Several units of firefighters responded from Okanogan County Fire...

A wildfire that broke out Tuesday evening scorched thousands of acres of brush and timber and two barns -- but no homes, thanks to the quick response of local fire districts working together. The...

During the third inning of the Mariner’s game on Aug. 14, we saw smoke coming from the north of our home on Peter Dan Creek. We thought the fire was somewhere around Rebecca Lake, but within...

Here's the latest update just in. Most of the Buffalo Lake Road Fire was quiet yesterday, giving firefighters the opportunity to continue improving containment lines and mopping up throughout its perimeter. In the southeast section, near Swawilla...

Firefighters will have to be alert against localized erratic winds today as temperatures near the Buffalo Lake Road Wildfire creep near 100 degrees. With the fire 70-percent contained, officials...

The wildfire burning since Tuesday evening above Coulee Dam has scorched 7,800 acres so far, but only burned one old barn. No other structures have been lost, thanks to firefighters fending off the fl...

A wildfire burning out of control in the hills above the towns of Coulee Dam and Elmer City has consumed hundreds of acres of sage and grassland and reportedly forced some homeowners to evacuate as a...

Wildfire burns to water tank A fire crew of about a dozen responded from Mt. Tolman Fire Center to a grass blaze at the northwest corner of the town of Nespelem late Monday afternoon. An official said that the cause of the fire is being...

Herman Otto Jensen, 87, passed away November 15, 2011, at Ashland, Ohio.  Those who knew ever- a few of his adventures may have been surprised that he made it this far. His ‘times I almost died’...

About 70 firemen from throughout the area spent Wednesday and Thursday evenings last week taking wildfire training at Electric City’s fire hall. Firemen who go out on range fires need eight hours...

A number of fire departments will be in training April 11 and 12, at Electric City, for “red card” wildfire certification. Firefighters who go out on range fires need eight hours of training each year in order to keep their “red cards” up to...

Ten Years Ago An effort has been launched to encourage Electric City to adopt a cleanup law similar to Grand Coulee’s. Grand Coulee resident Gerald Sands attended the Electric City council meeting...

Members were informed by email last week that Banks Lake Golf and Country Club will not open this year. The announcement was made by Russ and Ida Horn, managing partners of the course. The email stated that the course would revert back to Port...